Hi Blair, Thanks for responding to my question. I tried several things and finally got it to work, although I still do not know what was going on. Originally I had all the CA names in question start with Create... After renaming them such that they all started with different words (such as Make..., Create, Do.. etc), they are now all executed by the installer.
Thanks again! Miaohsi -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 10:02 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom action entrypoints I'm grasping at straws here but maybe it has something to do with the back-to-back loading of two different CA dlls into the sandbox? Did you look in the computer's event logs to see if there were any entries there that may explain why the second invocation failed? -----Original Message----- From: Wang, Miaohsi [mailto:miaohsi.w...@invensys.com] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 9:05 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom action entrypoints Hi Christopher and anyone who can help, Thanks a lot for responding to my question. I am still having a problem trying to use two CustomActions.CA.dll written in C#. The CA's in the first one get called correctly but not those from the second one. When I use Depends.exe to view both dll's, I can see that all the CA's from both CustomActions.CA.dll are exported. However, when the install gets to calling the first CA in the second CustomActions.CA.dll, I get the 1723 error. Below is the install log file contents related to this problem. As you can see CA InstallTCL84 (from 1st CA dll) succeeded, but not Create_imr14cmd (from 2nd CA dll). Any idea? Thanks, Miaohsi ---------------------------- Action 8:32:17: InstallTCL84. MSI (s) (90:34) [08:32:17:234]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=InstallTCL84,ActionType=1025,Source=BinaryData,T arget=InstallTCL84,CustomActionData=INSTALLDIR=C:\SimSci2\;ROOTDIR=ROMeo60) MSI (s) (90:74) [08:32:17:234]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI29.tmp, Entrypoint: InstallTCL84 SFXCA: Extracting custom action to temporary directory: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI29.tmp-\ SFXCA: Binding to CLR version v2.0.50727 Calling custom action CustomActions!CustomActions.ROMeoCustomActions1.InstallTCL84 MSI (s) (90:34) [08:32:23:781]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=Create_imr14cmd,,) Action 8:32:23: Create_imr14cmd. MSI (s) (90:34) [08:32:23:796]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=Create_imr14cmd,ActionType=1025,Source=BinaryDat a,Target=Create_imr14cmd,CustomActionData=COMPUTERNAME=USLKFQA03;INSTALLDIR= C:\SimSci2\;RootDir=ROMeo60;version=6.0) MSI (s) (90:90) [08:32:23:796]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI2A.tmp, Entrypoint: Create_imr14cmd MSI (s) (90:34) [08:32:23:812]: Note: 1: 1723 2: Create_imr14cmd 3: Create_imr14cmd 4: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI2A.tmp MSI (s) (90:34) [08:32:23:812]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (s) (90:34) [08:32:23:812]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1723: -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 1:08 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom action entrypoints I have multiple .CA.DLL files in my installer so I'm not sure what that problem is. As for the 16 entry points per DLL, I think I recall someone writing that they were able to alter the source to SfxCA ( EntryPoints.def and EntryPoints.h ) to get around that limitation. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: "Wang, Miaohsi" <miaohsi.w...@invensys.com> To: "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 2:56:39 PM Subject: [WiX-users] Custom action entrypoints Hello, I created a second custom action dll because of the max 16 entrypoint limit. I included the two CA dll's in my WiX install project as shown below: <Binary Id="CustomActions1.dll" SourceFile=".\CustomActions\CustomActions1\bin\Release\CustomActions1.CA.dll " /> <Binary Id="CustomActions2.dll" SourceFile=".\CustomActions\CustomActions2\bin\Release\CustomActions2.CA.dll " /> My problem is that it seems that the CA's in the second dll do not get recognized by MSI. For instance, CA "RestoreINSTALLDIR" below gets executed while CA "Create_imr14cmd" does not, and the install rolls back. <CustomAction Id="RestoreINSTALLDIR" BinaryKey="CustomActions1.dll" DllEntry="RestoreINSTALLDIR" Execute="immediate" Return="check" /> <CustomAction Id="Create_imr14cmd" BinaryKey="CustomActions2.dll" DllEntry="Create_imr14cmd" Execute="deferred" Return="check" /> When the second CA (Create_imr14cmd) is included in the CustomActions1.dll, it works fine. Once it is moved to the second dll, it does not get executed anymore and the install fails. Please let me know if you know how to lift the max 16 limit or if you know how to get the CA's in the second dll executed. Thank you so much for your help. Regards, Miaohsi *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. 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